Dr. John Jackson (1804-1887) was Virginia Woolf’s
maternal grandfather. He made a modest fortune as a physician
in India where he married Maria Pattle in 1837. She was the granddaughter
of “a Chevalier de l’Etang, who is said to have been
a friend of Marie Antoinette.” Dr. Jackson “never
had a day’s illness in his life,” according to Leslie
Stephen, and “went to church as regularly as to his dinner.”
He had “a commonplace understanding, and was a worshipper
of respectability.”